Dictionary

crasis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
   • Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […] , I.iii.1.2
   • This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 24:
2. (countable, uncountable) A mixture or combination.
3. (countable, uncountable) The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
   • When in a crasis, a lene consonant […] is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate […] 1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence:

Forms

Translations (16)

pt crase (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · io krazo (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · br krasis (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · oc crasi (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · ca crasi (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · ext crasi (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · grc κρᾶσις (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · el κράση (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · de Krasis (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · fr crase (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · wa etroclaedje (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · da krasis (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · fi krasis (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · ru кра́зис (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · scn crasi (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word) · it crasi (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word)